Riley became engaged in May 2016 in New York to American actress Lizzy Caplan.[2] Caplan and Riley met in January 2015 while the actress was filming in London and made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Prague Opera Ball in February 2016.[3]

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I Want Candy (film)
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I Want Candy is a 2007 British comedy film from Ealing Studios. A group of students at Leatherhead University in search of funding for their feature film The Love Storm end up having to rewrite. This leads the head first into a world of erotica that they didnt even know existed. I Want Candy is also the title of a written and originally recorded by The Strangeloves in 1965. The film received mixed reviews, but praise from Channel 4, Time Out, the movie entered the UK Top 10 at No. 7, and moved to No.11 the following week, scenes in the fictional Leatherhead University were filmed on the campus of Brooklands College in Weybridge, Surrey. In 2016, filmmaker Anthony Crossland posted a video of the used in I want candy to the Missing footage youtube channel as part of a web series. Its believed that Anthony Crossland was residing in Ruislip, Greater London at the time, I Want Candy was released as a DVD on 20 August 2007. The special feature it included on the DVD were deleted scenes, bloopers and it also included scenes which were from the official website like Joe and Baggys 10 tips to making a film and Whats your porn star name

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Promotional poster

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Maidstone
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Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England,32 miles south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it with Rochester, historically, the river was a source and route for much of the towns trade as the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of a settlement in the area dating back to before the Stone Age, the town is in the borough of Maidstone. In 2011, the town had a population of 113,137, maidstones economy has changed over the years from being involved in heavy industry, to more light industry and service industries. Saxon charters show the first recorded instances of the name, de maeides stana and maegdan stane. The latter meaning may refer to the nearby megalith around which took place. The name evolved through medestan/meddestane in the Domesday Book with possible variation Mayndenstan, the modern name appeared by 1610. It has been suggested that the name derives from stones set into the river to allow clothes to be rinsed in the water away from the banks. Neolithic finds have revealed the earliest occupation of the area, the Normans set up a shire moot, and religious organisations established an abbey at Boxley, hospitals and a college for priests. Today’s suburb of Penenden Heath was a place of execution in medieval times, maidstones charter as a town was granted in 1549, although briefly revoked, a new charter in 1551 created the town as a borough. The charter was ratified in 1619 under James I, and the coat of arms was designed, bearing a golden lion, recently to these arms were added the head of a white horse, a golden lion and an iguanodon. The iguanodon relates to the discovery in the 19th century of the remains of that dinosaur. Maidstone has had the right to a town gaol since 1604, during the English Civil War, the Battle of Maidstone took place in 1648, resulting in a victory for the Parliamentarians. Paper mills, stone quarrying, brewing and the industry have all flourished here. The paper maker James Whatman and his son invented wove paper at Turkey Mill from 1740, a permanent military presence was established in the town with the completion of cavalry barracks in 1798. Invicta Park Barracks is now home to the 36 Engineer Regiment, Maidstone Prison is north of the town centre and was completed in 1819. Modern Maidstone incorporates a number of outlying villages and settlements, the county council offices to the north of the town centre were built of Portland stone between 1910 and 1913. On 29 September 1975 a local pub serving Invicta Park Barracks, The Hare, Maidstone General Hospital opened on the outskirts of the town in 1983, replacing West Kent General Hospital, which opened 150 years earlier in Marsham Street

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Kent
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Kent /ˈkɛnt/ is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south west, the county also shares borders with Essex via the Dartford Crossing and the French department of Pas-de-Calais through the Channel Tunnel. France can be clearly in fine weather from Folkestone and the White Cliffs of Dover. Hills in the form of the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge span the length of the county, because of its relative abundance of fruit-growing and hop gardens, Kent is known as The Garden of England. The title was defended in 2006 when a survey of counties by the UKTV Style Gardens channel put Kent in fifth place, behind North Yorkshire, Devon. Haulage, logistics, and tourism are industries, major industries in north-west Kent include aggregate building materials, printing. Coal mining has played its part in Kents industrial heritage. Large parts of Kent are within the London commuter belt and its transport connections to the capital. Twenty-eight per cent of the county forms part of two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the North Downs and The High Weald, the area has been occupied since the Palaeolithic era, as attested by finds from the quarries at Swanscombe. The Medway megaliths were built during the Neolithic era, There is a rich sequence of Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman era occupation, as indicated by finds and features such as the Ringlemere gold cup and the Roman villas of the Darent valley. The modern name of Kent is derived from the Brythonic word Cantus meaning rim or border and this describes the eastern part of the current county area as a border land or coastal district. Julius Caesar had described the area as Cantium, or home of the Cantiaci in 51 BC, the extreme west of the modern county was by the time of Roman Britain occupied by Iron Age tribes, known as the Regnenses. East Kent became a kingdom of the Jutes during the 5th century and was known as Cantia from about 730, the early medieval inhabitants of the county were known as the Cantwara, or Kent people. These people regarded the city of Canterbury as their capital, in 597, Pope Gregory I appointed the religious missionary as the first Archbishop of Canterbury. In the previous year, Augustine successfully converted the pagan King Æthelberht of Kent to Christianity, the Diocese of Canterbury became Britains first Episcopal See with first cathedral and has since remained Englands centre of Christianity. The second designated English cathedral was in Kent at Rochester Cathedral, in the 11th century, the people of Kent adopted the motto Invicta, meaning undefeated. This naming followed the invasion of Britain by William of Normandy, the Kent peoples continued resistance against the Normans led to Kents designation as a semi-autonomous county palatine in 1067. Under the nominal rule of Williams half-brother Odo of Bayeux, the county was granted powers to those granted in the areas bordering Wales

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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years

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Maidstone Grammar School
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Maidstone Grammar School is a grammar school in Maidstone, England. The school was founded in 1549 after Protector Somerset sold Corpus Christi Hall on behalf of King Edward VI to the people of Maidstone for £200, the Royal Charter for establishment of a grammar school was also granted at this time. The school takes boys at the age of 11 and over, by examination, the school currently has almost 1200 pupils and approximately 120 members of staff. The school holds both a Language College award and a Healthy School award and it is situated just off Loose Road, west of Mote Park and the Mote Park Leisure Centre. The main school building surrounds a Tudor-style quadrangle with a cloister on one side, a new block was added in the 1960s. A sixth form and arts and crafts block was added in 1981 and this newer building completes a second quadrangle. In 2005 a new refectory and teaching block of 15 classrooms was built, there are over 100 classrooms, twelve science laboratories, a language laboratory, seven computer centres, music rooms, a lecture theatre, gym and sports hall and a canteen. A new Applied Learning Centre, with new editing suites, was completed in the 2010–11 school year, with a similarly styled Food Technology, a house system was inaugurated in 1899 with three houses, School, East Borough and West Borough. The sixth form is one of the largest in the south-east of England, each year the school takes up to 200 students into Year 12, including about thirty external pupils of mixed gender from any school according to their GCSE results. The sixth form teaches AS and A2 courses, School sport participation includes rugby, football, field hockey, cricket, rowing, athletics, handball, and basketball. The school has a Combined Cadet Force, with Navy, Army, the Cadet Force, in particular the Army section, has roots in the Royal Engineers. The Navy section is affiliated with HMS Collingwood, an establishment in Portsmouth. In 1908 Rev C. G. Duffield, wrote words in Latin to the music of music-master Dr H. F. Henniker for Gaudeamus, the words, based on verses in Virgil’s Aeneid, are still sung on special occasions. The Maidstonian is the annual publication of reports, articles, news. Originally a simple record of every member of staff, as well as pupil and his form, The Maidstonian has evolved into a publication that is written by pupils. Editions include information about any member of staff who has left or who joined the school academic year, reports from the CCF, Music Department, sports teams. Original contributions are of mainly poetry, prose and artwork, the school has recently created a development fund, funded by parents. The school plans to extend its pavilion and knock down and rebuild a Performing Arts Centre, the old CCF Scout Huts and Lab Hut 93 have also been demolished

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Maidstone Grammar School

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University of Birmingham
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The University of Birmingham is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It is a member of both the Russell Group of British research universities and the international network of research universities, Universitas 21. The university was ranked 15th in the UK and 82nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings for 2016-17, in 2013, Birmingham was named University of the Year 2014 in the Times Higher Education awards. The 2016 Global Employability University Ranking places Birmingham at 90th world-wide, Birmingham is also ranked 9th in the UK for Graduate Prospects in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017. The student population includes 21,495 undergraduate and 12,335 postgraduate students, the annual income of the institution for 2015–16 was £625.6 million of which £135.5 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £562.1 million. Academics and alumni of the university include former British Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain, and Stanley Baldwin and these classes were the first ever held outside London or south of the Scottish border in the winter of 1767–68. The first clinical teaching was undertaken by medical and surgical apprentices at the General Hospital, the medical school which grew out of the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary was founded in 1828 but Cox began teaching in December 1825. Queen Victoria granted her patronage to the Clinical Hospital in Birmingham and it was the first provincial teaching hospital in England. In 1843, the college became known as Queens College. The college was founded in 1875 and it was this institution that would eventually form the nucleus of the University of Birmingham. In 1882, the Departments of Chemistry, Botany and Physiology were transferred to Mason Science College, soon followed by the Departments of Physics and Comparative Anatomy. The transfer of the Medical School to Mason Science College gave considerable impetus to the importance of that college. As the result of the Mason University College Act 1897 it became incorporated as Mason University College on 1 January 1898 and it was largely due to Chamberlains enthusiasm that the university was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria on 24 March 1900. The Calthorpe family offered twenty-five acres of land on the Bournbrook side of their estate in July, the Court of Governors received the Birmingham University Act 1900, which put the royal charter into effect on 31 May. Birmingham was therefore arguably the first so-called red brick university, although several other universities claim this title, the transfer of Mason University College to the new University of Birmingham, with Chamberlain as its first chancellor and Sir Oliver Lodge as the first principal, was complete. All that remained of Josiah Masons legacy was his Mermaid in the chief of the university shield and of his college. It became the first civic and campus university in England, consequently, the faculty, the first of its kind in Britain, was founded by Sir William Ashley in 1901, who from 1902 until 1923 served as first Professor of Commerce and Dean of the Faculty. From 1905 to 1908, Edward Elgar held the position of Peyton Professor of Music at the university and he was succeeded by his friend Granville Bantock

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A view across Chancellor's Court, towards the Law building
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Shield from the arms of the University of Birmingham
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Ceiling of the Aston Webb building
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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom. LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK, lAMDAs president is Timothy West and its Principal is Joanna Read. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd, there is an associate organisation in America under the name LAMDA in America, Inc. previously known as The American Friends of LAMDA. LAMDA accredited examinations at Level 3 or above are recognised within the UCAS Tariff system, as an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, LAMDA receives funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This means that eligible UK/EU students are able to access loans to assist with their tuition fees, in addition, LAMDA and the Conservatoire have a range of scholarships and bursaries available. The London Academy of Music was founded by Henry Wylde in 1861, providing training for, and examinations in, various musical disciplines was originally the dominant purpose of the institution. However, providing instruction in spoken English quickly became an area of the Academy’s work. In the 1880s, LAMDA began offering speech examinations to the public, since then, these examinations have been refined and developed into a comprehensive system of performance evaluation. LAMDA Examinations has emerged as the largest Speech and Drama Board in the United Kingdom, later the Hampstead Academy was also amalgamated. The name was changed to the current name in 1935, under the direction of Wilfrid Foulis, in 1939, it was moved from London due to the war, when it reopened in 1945, it no longer provided musical training. The past few years have witnessed important growth for the Academy, a move to a larger and more visible home on the Talgarth Road in West London has enabled LAMDA to further develop the campus and training facilities for its students. Furthermore, in June 2004, the Academy became an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance, LAMDA regularly presents productions at the Lyric Hammersmith, Riverside Studios and the Linbury Studio Theatre. Edward Akrout – Angélica Aragón - Richard Armitage – Colin Baker – Jim Broadbent – Kim Cattrall – Sam Claflin – Dominic Cooper – Brian Cox – Benedict Cumberbatch – James D’Arcy –, W. E

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The main entrance to LAMDA
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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

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Lizzy Caplan
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Elizabeth Anne Lizzy Caplan is an American actress. Caplan also starred in television shows The Class, True Blood and her other film appearances include Hot Tub Time Machine,127 Hours, Save the Date, Bachelorette, The Interview, Now You See Me 2 and Allied. She also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe short film Item 47, elizabeth Anne Caplan was born on June 30,1982 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in its Miracle Mile district. Her father, Richard Caplan, was a lawyer, and her mother and she is the youngest of three children with a brother, Benjamin and a sister, Julie. Her mother died of illness when she was 13 years old and her uncle is publicist Howard Bragman. Caplan attended Alexander Hamilton High School, and was a student at the schools Academy of Music and she first focused on playing the piano, then later decided to pursue drama. She was also on her schools soccer team and she graduated in 2000, but did not attend college because it was time consuming and she wanted to focus on acting. Caplan began her career in 1999, first playing a girl named Sara in the critically acclaimed series Freaks and Geeks. Due to her performance, her character became the girlfriend of Jason Segels character and she then had a series of guest appearances on numerous shows, and appeared in Jason Mrazs music video You and I Both. In 2000 she appeared in her first film From Where I Sit which was released straight to television, in 2001, she played Tina Greer in an episode of Smallville, and reprised her role on the show in 2003. She appeared in two episodes of the ABC series Once and Again, in 2003, she starred in the television series The Pitts, playing Faith Pitt. She gained wider notice for playing Janis Ian in the 2004 film Mean Girls and she played Avery Bishop in the second season of Tru Calling. In 2005, Caplan played troubled sister Marjee Sorelli in Related, in 2006, she starred as Sara Weller in the thriller film Love is the Drug and was named one of 10 Actors to Watch by Variety. After Related ended, Caplan was cast in the CBS sitcom The Class and she played Kat Warbler, one of several elementary school friends that reunite after 20 years. In 2008, Caplan played Marlena Diamond in the film Cloverfield and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and she also appeared as Ami in the romantic comedy My Best Friends Girl. Later that year, she guest starred as Amy Burley on the HBO vampire show True Blood and she is the voice of Faith Pitt in the animated version of The Pitts, which premiered in 2009. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed Starz ensemble comedy Party Down, in 2010, she appeared in 127 Hours. In early 2012, Caplan premiered two films at the Sundance Film Festival, Save the Date and Bachelorette, also in 2012, she appeared as Julia in several episodes of the Fox sitcom New Girl

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A Few Days in September
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A Few Days in September is the first film directed by Santiago Amigorena, who previously wrote screenplays for films by Cédric Klapisch and Catherine Breillat among others. The film premiered out of competition at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, a Few Days in September imagines a scenario in which an American C. I. A. Juliette Binoche as Irène John Turturro as William Pound Sara Forestier as Orlando Tom Riley as David Nick Nolte as Elliot Koch-Lorber Films released the film on DVD in the US in 2007. Fledgling distributor Transmedia Pictures gave the film a release in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was released on DVD in the UK by High Fliers Films in September 2009, aztec International released the film in Australia, licensing the DVD rights to Madman Films. In September 2007 French language television station TV5 broadcast a version of the film. This version begins on September 6,2001, when Irène brings Orlando and David to her apartment, removing the scene on Orlandos farm. As such it removes September 5 from the narrative, the version of the film was released in Portugal in November 2006 had a slightly longer running time, A number of extra scenes were included in this version at producer Paolo Brancos request. This version opens with Irène in her apartment receiving a letter from Elliot and it also includes scenes of Orlando target practicing on her farm and of Irène and William Pound sitting in his truck reminiscing on their shared history. Reviews of the film were mixed to negative, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 44% rating

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Theatrical poster

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Return to House on Haunted Hill
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Return to House on Haunted Hill is a 2007 direct-to-DVD horror film and the sequel to the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill. Directed by Víctor García and written by William Masa, the film stars Amanda Righetti, Tom Riley, Cerina Vincent, Ariel Wolfe is the sister of Sara Wolfe, a survivor of a birthday event eight years ago in the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane. In the 1920s, the asylum was overseen by the sadistic psychiatrist Dr. Richard B, Sara claimed that ghosts of the house residents killed the party guests, and later commits suicide. Ariel and her friend Paul are kidnapped by an art dealer, Ariel realises that Sara didnt commit suicide, Desmond killed her. Desmond forces Ariel to help him find an artifact located inside the old Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, inside the building, they encounter Dr. Richard Hammer and his assistants Kyle and Michelle. Ariel explains that the building has been rigged to keep everyone inside for at least 12 hours, the group splits up to search for the idol. Desmonds henchmen are killed by the ghosts, having visions of the patients there suffering the same deaths as them. A ghost shows Ariel the depravity the inmates suffered under Dr. Vannacutt and these images reveal that Vannacutt was driven mad by the idol, and performed experiments on the mentally ill. The inmates led a revolt against Vannacutt, during which the sanatorium burned down, the deaths in the previous film were assumed to be caused by the ghosts. But now Ariel is shown that the dead are actually forced by the idol to do Vannacutts bidding, although the 12 hours are up, the master locking mechanism begins to lock the house down again. Ariel escapes but discovers that Paul has entered into the house to look for her, convinced Michelle wants the idol for herself, Desmond attempts to kill her. Michelle however is killed by Vannacutt, the rest of the group discovers a way out of the asylum but it is blocked by iron bars. The ghost of an inmate shows Ariel that the idol is in the asylums basement crematorium, Ariel, Paul, and Dr. Hammer descend to the crematorium and discover the heart of the house, composed of living flesh. Ariel tries to destroy the idol but it is indestructible and she then reasons that if it is flushed down the sewer and leaves the building, the spirits will be freed. The team is ambushed by Desmond, who wants the idol, the ghosts seize Desmond and burn him alive after he has a vision about a patient dying a similar death. Dr. Hammer is overcome by the evil and tries to strangle Ariel. The ghost of Vannacutt and inmates appear, Vannacutt hoping one of them die in the fight. Hammer recovers his senses, but Dr. Vannacutt kills him, Ariel throws the idol into the sewer

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Return to House on Haunted Hill

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Happy Ever Afters
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Happy Ever Afters is an Irish film written and directed by Stephen Burke. The film was first shown at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea on 10 October, two weddings collide when both receptions are held at one hotel. The film opens with us being introduced to the four characters, Maura a down on her luck single mother, Molly her daughter as well as Freddie. Freddie is remarrying Sophie after a recent divorce, the reason for the divorce is not initially disclosed. Meanwhile Maura is shown to be marrying an illegal immigrant Wilson for which she will receive €9,000, both weddings afters are being held in the same hotel where all 4 of the characters interact. Maura is shown to be in debt and facing eviction from her house which lead her to the decision to marry Wilson. While her daughter Molly is unaware of the scam and believes that her mother truly loves Wilson, Freddie is shown to be a nice guy who has OCD esque habits while his bride Sophie is very image conscious and selfish. Throughout the film Freddie and Mauras paths keep crossing, leading to Sophie wrongly assuming that the two are involved in an illicit affair, to complicate matters two immigration officers arrive to the wedding reception to investigate Wilson and Maura. Eventually Molly learns that her mother is involved in a scam and has no feelings for Wilson, due to continually seeing Freddie and Maura, Sophie believes her suspicions of an affair to be true and flees the wedding. Sophies dad a selfish bully, loses his cool and attempts to assault Freddie believing him to be at fault for his daughters sudden disappearance. Meanwhile Sophie is shown to be in Dublin in a pub with some working class girls who support her decision to run away as they believe Freddie to be a lecherous villain, Sophie gets drunk with her new friend while Freddie is frantically trying to find her. Freddie at the time is trying to keep his marriage afloat. Throughout the film it is insinuated that one of the reasons for the marriage breakdown originally was the mental health. However, it is revealed that Freddie had a breakdown as he couldnt deal with Sophie. Facing ruin and a pending divorce Freddie tries to himself by throwing himself off the top floor of the hotel. However just as he is about to jump, Maura steps in, when he returns to the wedding both wedding parties have joined together and he meets a drunken returning Sophie. They finally talk together and realise that their marriage is over, Freddie realises he has feelings for Maura and chases after her. Maura has left the hotel with Wilson and Molly, Maura believes that Freddie has reunited with Sophie when he appears and convinces her otherwise

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Happy Ever Afters

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Casualty 1906
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Casualty 1900s is a British hospital drama spin-off of BBC One drama Casualty. It places the viewer in the Receiving Room of The London Hospital in Londons East End, the drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern-day counterpart A&E. In the London Hospital 1900, every case and character is based on cases, characters and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurses Ward Diaries. Casualty 1909, like its series, is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors. It began with an episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909. Nurse Ada Russell has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward Sister of Wellington ward, the hospital is using a radical new technique, ultra-violet light, to treat skin disease caused by unsanitary living conditions in the East End. Queen Alexandra visits with her sister the dowager empress of Russia to see the hospital, probationer Ethel Bennett goes through a night of rising tension as she nurses Thomas Hooley, the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of running of a large, busy ward, nobby Clark, leader of the violent Blind Beggar Gang, is hospitalised with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, aged just 15. Driven mad by cravings and nightmares, his path crosses with Ada with unexpected results, with the hospital facing imminent financial collapse, chairman Sydney Holland launches an inspired campaign to raise money. The cost of building the city is revealed when workers on the new Rotherhithe Tunnel are admitted with agonising divers bends. Ethel, working in the room, contracts scarlet fever from a patient. Revolution grips the East End as an explosion brings fears of a bomb, when detectives arrive, Matron Luckes and Chairman Sydney Holland fear the hospital is in danger of becoming an extension of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, Sister Ada Russell battles with irascible star surgeon Mr Henry Dean, and ambitious young Dr Ingrams faces catastrophe in the operating theatre. A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic, Sister Ada Russell copes with her first day in reception following reassignment. Nurse Bennett fears that her alliance with Dr Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing. The strain of being married to the hospital takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, on one of the Londons Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau – but Saul has a life-threatening illness. Sister Russell discovers the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when she catches her out to see a mysterious young man. The London admits a woman brought in wearing paupers clothes yet with silk underwear underneath, meanwhile, the brilliant pioneer Dr Henry Head commits to performing a dangerous experiment on himself

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Casualty 1907
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Casualty 1900s is a British hospital drama spin-off of BBC One drama Casualty. It places the viewer in the Receiving Room of The London Hospital in Londons East End, the drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern-day counterpart A&E. In the London Hospital 1900, every case and character is based on cases, characters and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurses Ward Diaries. Casualty 1909, like its series, is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors. It began with an episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909. Nurse Ada Russell has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward Sister of Wellington ward, the hospital is using a radical new technique, ultra-violet light, to treat skin disease caused by unsanitary living conditions in the East End. Queen Alexandra visits with her sister the dowager empress of Russia to see the hospital, probationer Ethel Bennett goes through a night of rising tension as she nurses Thomas Hooley, the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of running of a large, busy ward, nobby Clark, leader of the violent Blind Beggar Gang, is hospitalised with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, aged just 15. Driven mad by cravings and nightmares, his path crosses with Ada with unexpected results, with the hospital facing imminent financial collapse, chairman Sydney Holland launches an inspired campaign to raise money. The cost of building the city is revealed when workers on the new Rotherhithe Tunnel are admitted with agonising divers bends. Ethel, working in the room, contracts scarlet fever from a patient. Revolution grips the East End as an explosion brings fears of a bomb, when detectives arrive, Matron Luckes and Chairman Sydney Holland fear the hospital is in danger of becoming an extension of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, Sister Ada Russell battles with irascible star surgeon Mr Henry Dean, and ambitious young Dr Ingrams faces catastrophe in the operating theatre. A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic, Sister Ada Russell copes with her first day in reception following reassignment. Nurse Bennett fears that her alliance with Dr Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing. The strain of being married to the hospital takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, on one of the Londons Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau – but Saul has a life-threatening illness. Sister Russell discovers the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when she catches her out to see a mysterious young man. The London admits a woman brought in wearing paupers clothes yet with silk underwear underneath, meanwhile, the brilliant pioneer Dr Henry Head commits to performing a dangerous experiment on himself

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Lewis (TV series)
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Lewis is a British television detective drama produced for ITV. It is a spin-off from Inspector Morse and, like that series, Kevin Whately reprises his character Robert Robbie Lewis, who was Morses sergeant in the original series. Lewis has now promoted to detective inspector and is assisted by DS James Hathaway, portrayed by Laurence Fox. The series also stars Clare Holman as forensic pathologist Dr Laura Hobson, likewise reprising her role from Inspector Morse, and Angela Griffin as DS Lizzie Maddox. On 2 November 2015, ITV announced that the show would end after its series, following the decision made by Kevin Whately. Whately announced that the show had gone on long enough, with his character having done many stories between Morse and Lewis after he took on the role 30 years ago. Kevin Whately as Detective Inspector Robert Lewis, Widowed after his wife was killed in a car accident. He often shows an uncanny intuition in solving murder cases and he is the father of two children, including daughter Lynn who is married and expecting a baby at one point in the series. Laurence Fox as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, James Hathaway is a private person, often hiding his feelings or past from Lewis. This tendency has caused tension between the two. Educated at Cambridge, Hathaway is the more erudite of the pair, often knowing the source of various quotations, prior to joining the police force, Hathaway had originally moved to Oxford to enter a Catholic seminary but left for reasons that become clear later in the second series. Hathaway was a sergeant until the eighth season, in which he is promoted to the rank of detective inspector following a short break from the police. Hathaway is forced to confront his past in the season, with father Philip Hathaway. In Series 9, he is the lead in criminal investigations with Lizzie Maddox and Lewis. Clare Holman as Dr. Laura Hobson, Romantic tensions simmer between forensic pathologist Dr. Hobson and Lewis throughout the series, Hobson is single and childless, and like Lewis and Hathaway, is dedicated to her job to a point that it interrupts many of her personal plans. She and Lewis become a couple during the seventh season, rebecca Front as Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent, She is the senior officer supervising Lewis and Hathaway. When Lewis returned from his overseas secondment, Innocent was not convinced that he would be of value, Innocent is frequently at odds with Lewis over his investigation style. In Series 9, it is revealed that she has gone to work for Suffolk Constabulary, Angela Griffin as Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox, She becomes Hathaways DS, following his promotion to detective inspector

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Cover of the DVD of the first series

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Appointment with Death
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The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christies experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister, You do see, dont you, that shes got to be killed. Their stepmother, Mrs Boynton, is a tyrant who dominates her family. When she is dead on a trip to Petra, Poirot proposes to solve the case in twenty-four hours. The novel opens as the family and the victim are introduced through the perspective of Sarah King and Dr. Gerard, Mrs. Boynton is sadistic and domineering, which she may have inculcated from her original profession, prison warden. Sarah is attracted to Raymond Boynton, while Jefferson Cope admits to wanting to take Nadine Boynton away from her husband, Lennox Boynton, when the party reaches Petra, Mrs. Boynton uncharacteristically sends her family away from her for a period. Later, she is dead with a needle puncture in her wrist. Poirot claims that he can solve the mystery within twenty-four hours simply by interviewing the suspects, attention is focused on a hypodermic syringe that has seemingly been stolen from Dr. Gerard’s tent and later replaced. The poison administered to the victim is believed to be digitoxin, Poirot then calls for a meeting and explains how each member of the family has, in turn, discovered Mrs. Boynton to be dead and, suspecting another family member, failed to report the fact. None of the family would have needed to murder the victim with a hypodermic and this places the suspicion on one of the outsiders. The murderer is revealed to be Lady Westholme who, previous to her marriage, had been incarcerated in the prison in which the victim was once a warden. It was to Lady Westholme, and not to Sarah, that Mrs. Boynton had addressed that peculiar threat, the temptation to acquire a new subject to torture had been too great for her to resist. Disguised as an Arab servant she had committed the murder and then relied upon the suggestibility of Miss Pierce to lay two pieces of misdirection that had concealed her role in the murder. Lady Westholme, eavesdropping in a room, overhears that her criminal history is about to be revealed to the world. The family, free at last, take up happier lives, Sarah marries Raymond, Carol marries Jefferson, only the solution appears a trifle tame and disappointing. In The New York Times Book Review for 11 September 1938, Kay Irvin said, Appointment with Death is decidedly of the lesser ranks, indeed, it comes close to being the least solid and satisfactory of all the Poirot mystery tales. Its presentation of a family harried and tortured by a sadistic matriarch is shot full of psychological conversation, and yet, when the evil-hearted old tyrant has been murdered at last and Poirot considers the suspects, one follows with genuine interest the unraveling of even unexciting clues. In The Observers issue of 1 May 1938, Torquemada said, I was feeling in particularly good form, and the worst of it is that she handicapped herself in the latest game with what in anyone else would be insolent severity

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Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition
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Dell Mapback No. 105, first US paperback edition, 1946
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Crime map showing "Petra, the place of sacrifice" from Dell Mapback #105

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Lost in Austen
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Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British television series for the ITV network, written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Amanda, a woman from modern London, enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events disastrously. In December 2009 the show was placed at 48 in The Top 50 TV Shows of the Noughties, Amanda explains to her mother that Jane Austens novel has shown her that she can set higher standards for a husband for herself, and taught her to believe in true love. Elizabeth appears in Amandas bathroom again, this time dressed for travel, Amanda steps through the secret doorway in the wall that Elizabeth has shown her, and finds herself at Longbourn, the house of the Bennet family, near the beginning of the novel. Amanda is trapped in this world while Elizabeth is in 21st-century London, Mr Bennet is hospitable, accepting Amanda as his daughters good friend, while Elizabeth visits the city. Amanda tries to ensure that the novel progresses as it should, at the Meryton Assembly Hall, Amanda tries to reject Bingleys interest by telling him that she cannot dance with him, because Mr Darcy has already asked her to. Bingley calls Amandas bluff, but Darcy backs her up and dances with her, Amanda gets drunk and kisses Bingley, immediately regretting it. A furious Mrs Bennet warns Amanda not to interfere with her daughters marriage prospects, later, Amanda forces Jane to travel to the Bingleys home in bad weather, in order to get the novel back on track. But when she learns that this may give Jane a fatal attack of grippe Amanda follows her to try, while nursing a sick Jane with paracetamol at Netherfield Park, Amanda finally puts a stop to Bingleys advances on her. Claiming to be a lesbian, she is able to direct his amorous attentions back to Jane, Darcy, however, argues with Amanda about her bringing Jane to Netherfield Park, while Caroline Bingley takes a dislike to Amanda, and continually tries to embarrass her. She insists that Amanda play the piano for them, but upon her revelation that she play, Amanda instead sings Petula Clarks song Downtown. As the Bennet ladies return to Longbourn, their carriage breaks down, Amanda warns Wickham that she knows what he is up to, and is watching him. Repulsive cousin Mr Collins, the heir to Longbourn, visits to gain a wife. When he starts a proposal to Jane, Amanda intervenes, offering Elizabeths best friend and his fiancee in the novel, Mr Collins, however, misunderstands, and proposes to Amanda. Amanda sends Bingley and Jane on a walk to them together. Bingley gives Jane the cold shoulder, and she flees in tears, a vengeful Wickham begins to discredit Amanda, spreading rumors that her vast income comes from her deceased father, a fishmonger. Mr Collins, on hearing this offence to high society, breaks off his engagement with Amanda, Jane, believing that Bingley no longer loves her, accepts her mothers advice, and unhappily marries Mr Collins. A disgusted Mr Bennet angrily refuses to sleep in the bed as his wife

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Lost in Austen intertitle

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George Wickham
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George Wickham is a fictional character created by Jane Austen who appears in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813. George Wickham is introduced as an officer who has a shared history with Mr. Darcy. Henry Fieldings Tom Jones influenced the development of Wickhams character and he has traits of the main protagonists of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the hero, Tom Jones, and his half-brother, Blifil. There is a resemblance between the confrontational relationship between the two characters in Fieldings novel and in the one created by Jane Austen between Wickham and Darcy. Finally, the Pemberley estate, under the authority of Mr. Darcy, Senior, master Blifil and the bastard Tom grew up in the same estate, and have received the same education and the same affection from the squire. Like the treacherous Blifil, Wickham is permanently banned from the paradise of his childhood, another parallel of Wickham and Darcys younger days is with the Biblical figures Jacob and Esau. Another inspiration is Joseph Surface from The School for Scandal, who, like Wickham, seems to be charming and upright and he has all the appearance of the ideal romantic hero. The uniform, the red coat of Colonel Forsters militia, adds to his prestige among the women. Susan Morgan notes that in contrast to Austens introductions of other characters, Wickhams introduction tells us nothing of Mr. Wickhams qualities or nature, Elizabeth Bennet, in particular, is delighted, she finds him well above the captains of the militia in elegance and manners. He seems to her much more worthy of interest when he appears to be an innocent victim of the cruelty and jealousy of Mr. Darcy, whom she finds so unpleasant. As the narrator reveals nothing of the new officers past, he is exclusively through the positive image that Elizabeth. A native of Derbyshire, where she had lived ten or twelve years before her marriage, he gave her the opportunity to evoke pleasant memories of youth, so she was inclined towards him. According to David Shapard, the reason why Wickham and Elizabeth do not seriously consider marriage is that they are both without funds. The Bennets, who were offended by the snobbery of Darcy and of Bingleys sisters, welcome him and listen to the story of his grievances with sympathy, Mr. Bennet himself has a certain weakness for him. Jennifer Preston Wilson asserts that Wickham relies upon making a good first impression. The first appearance of Wickham in Meryton is when Darcy and Elizabeth meet again after their first encounter at the ball, only Elizabeth, burning to know the explanation, notices the brief exchange between Wickham and Darcy, one turned red, the other pale. As all the focus is on Elizabeth noticing this exchange between the men, Burns suggests that we are not told that Wickham is observing Darcy, Wickham profits from the sympathy enjoyed in the city by Colonel Forster and his regiment choosing Meryton as its winter quarters. It is one of the local militias raised to reinforce the army against the threat of French invasion, as some came with their spouses, teas and visits between women increased the occasions for marriageable young ladies to meet these dashing idle officers in red coats

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Mr Wickham, as drawn by Hugh Thomson (1894)
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Mr Wickham was more personable than the other officers. (C. E. Brock, 1895)
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Mr Denny asks for permission to introduce his friend, Mr Wickham. (C. E. Brock, 1895.)
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A militiaman who serves in the Derbyshire militia, like Wickham does. Watercolour by an unknown artist, 1780.

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Monroe (TV series)
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Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network. The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe, played by James Nesbitt, the six-part series was commissioned by ITV as one of a number of replacements for its long-running police drama series The Bill, which was cancelled in 2010. Filming on Monroe began in Leeds in September 2010, with production based in the old Leeds Girls High School in Headingley, the first episode was broadcast on ITV on 10 March 2011 to strong ratings. A second series followed in 2012, on 14 November 2012, it was announced that ITV had cancelled Monroe due to low viewing figures. ITVs director of drama Laura Mackie told The Stage that the series would be grown-up and would be based around a single character, like ITVs Doc Martin. Bowker told the Media Guardian that he had been inspired to create a series about a neurologist after his daughter was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour. Independent production company Mammoth Screen developed the series with Bowker, having worked with him on his Wuthering Heights adaptation. The drama entered the stage in March 2010, when Laura Mackie. Formal greenlighting was expected to happen in the first week of April 2010, film director Paul McGuigan signed on as lead director of Monroe. McGuigan researched the nature of the series by meeting with neurosurgeons, steve Lawes, with whom McGuigan worked on his other television series, Sherlock, was originally announced as the director of photography. McGuigan directed the first three episodes of the series, and David Moore directed the last three, the cast and crew met for a script read-through the week before filming began and the principal cast attended a boot camp at Leeds General Infirmary. Filming on the series commenced on 26 September 2010, the principal setting of St Matthews Hospital has been created within the former Leeds Girls High School. Eight weeks were spent converting the school into the hospital set, James Nesbitt as Dr Gabriel Monroe. Recently divorced from Anna, with a son Nick in university, Sarah Parish as Dr Jenny Bremner. Talented, but somewhat aloof cardiothoracic surgeon, in a relationship with Dr Shepherd, Tom Riley as Dr Lawrence Shepherd. An anaesthetist, he is Monroes best friend and is in a relationship with Dr Bremner, neil Pearson as Dr Alistair Gillespie. General surgeon and newly appointed Head of Clinical Services at St Matthew’s, manjinder Virk as Dr Sally Fortune. Neurosurgical Registrar working under Dr Monroe, luke Allen-Gale as Dr Daniel Springer

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Leonardo Da Vinci
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He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the Universal Genius or Renaissance Man, an individual of unquenchable curiosity and feverishly inventive imagination. Much of his working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France, Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait, Leonardos drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived, Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated power, an adding machine. Some of his inventions, however, such as an automated bobbin winder. A number of Leonardos most practical inventions are nowadays displayed as working models at the Museum of Vinci. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics, today, Leonardo is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. Leonardo was born on 15 April 1452 at the hour of the night in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. He was the son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense – da Vinci simply meaning of Vinci, his birth name was Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, meaning Leonardo. The inclusion of the title ser indicated that Leonardos father was a gentleman, little is known about Leonardos early life. He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother and his father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera Amadori, who loved Leonardo but died young in 1465 without children. When Leonardo was sixteen, his father married again to twenty-year-old Francesca Lanfredini, pieros legitimate heirs were born from his third wife Margherita di Guglielmo and his fourth and final wife, Lucrezia Cortigiani. Leonardo received an education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. In later life, Leonardo recorded only two childhood incidents, one, which he regarded as an omen, was when a kite dropped from the sky and hovered over his cradle, its tail feathers brushing his face

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Doctor Who
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Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called The Doctor and he explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes, while working to save civilisations, the show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series, the programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot. The programme was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff, twelve actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The conceit is that this is a Time Lord trait through which the character of the Doctor takes on a new body, each actors portrayal differs, but all represent stages in the life of the same character and form a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet. The current lead, Peter Capaldi, took on the role after Matt Smiths exit in the 2013 Christmas special The Time of the Doctor, in 2017, Capaldi confirmed he would be leaving at the end of the tenth series. Doctor Who follows the adventures of the character, a rogue Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He fled from Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS – Time and Relative Dimension in Space – a machine which allows him to travel across time, the TARDIS has a chameleon circuit which normally allows the machine to take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. However, the Doctors TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box due to a malfunction in the chameleon circuit, the Doctor rarely travels alone and often brings one or more companions to share these adventures. His companions are usually humans, as he has found a fascination with planet Earth, as a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his body is mortally damaged, taking on a new appearance and personality. The Doctor has gained numerous reoccurring enemies during his travels, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Master, another renegade Time Lord. Doctor Who first appeared on BBC TV at 17,16,20 GMT, eighty seconds after the programme time,5,15 pm. It was to be a weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year, writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer Verity Lambert also heavily contributed to the development of the series

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Robin Hood
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Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend, was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Traditionally depicted as being dressed in Lincoln green, he is portrayed as robbing from the rich. Robin Hood became a folk figure in the late-medieval period. Little John, Much the Millers Son and Will Scarlet all appear and this view first gained currency in the 16th century. It is not supported by the earliest ballads, the early compilation, A Gest of Robyn Hode, names the king as Edward, and while it does show Robin Hood accepting the Kings pardon, he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood. The oldest surviving ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk, gives even less support to the picture of Robin Hood as a partisan of the true king. The setting of the early ballads is usually attributed by scholars to either the 13th century or the 14th, the early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hoods social status, he is a yeoman. While the precise meaning of this changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders. The essence of it in the present context was neither a knight nor a peasant or husbonde, artisans were among those regarded as yeomen in the 14th century. As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by Robin Hood games or plays that were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities. The first record of a Robin Hood game was in 1426 in Exeter, the Robin Hood games are known to have flourished in the later 15th and 16th centuries. It is commonly stated as fact that Maid Marian and a jolly friar entered the legend through the May Games, the earliest surviving text of a Robin Hood ballad is the 15th century Robin Hood and the Monk. This is preserved in Cambridge University manuscript Ff.5.48, written after 1450, it contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin and the local sheriff. The first printed version is A Gest of Robyn Hode, a collection of stories that attempts to unite the episodes into a single continuous narrative. After this comes Robin Hood and the Potter, contained in a manuscript of c, the Potter is markedly different in tone from The Monk, whereas the earlier tale is a thriller the latter is more comic, its plot involving trickery and cunning rather than straightforward force. Other early texts are dramatic pieces, the earliest being the fragmentary Robyn Hod, each of these three ballads survived in a single copy, so it is unclear how much of the medieval legend has survived, and what has survived may not be typical of the medieval legend. The story of Robins aid to the knight that takes up much of the Gest may be an example. The character of Robin in these first texts is rougher edged than in his later incarnations, of my good he shall haue some, Yf he be a por man

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Robot of Sherwood
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The episode stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, with Tom Riley and Ben Miller guest-starring. Clara Oswald insists that the Doctor take her to meet Robin Hood, when the TARDIS lands in medieval England in the year 1190, they are met by a man who claims he is Robin Hood. Robin challenges the Doctor to a duel and the Doctor accepts, the Doctor manages to push Robin into a river, only to be pushed in by Robin later. Still, the Doctor remains in disbelief even as Robin takes the two to meet his band of Merry Men, Robin, his men, and the Doctor and Clara attend to an archery contest held by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin, disguised as Tom the Tinker, faces off against the Sheriff in the round to win the prize of a golden arrow. As legend states, Robin is able to best the Sheriff by splitting his arrow with his own shot, the Doctor then suddenly appears and challenges the result, readily splitting Robins arrow with his own. The two begin to challenge the other with arrows until the Doctor impatiently explodes the target using his sonic screwdriver. The Sheriff, intrigued by the Doctors power, commands his knights to capture him, when Robin cuts off one of the knights arms, it is revealed they are disguised robots. The Doctor allows the robots to capture him, Robin and Clara so he can learn more about the Sheriffs plans, meanwhile, the Doctor and Robin manage to escape their confinement and locate the spacecraft. The Doctor realises that the craft had fallen back through time from Earths future on the way to the Promised Land, disguising their ship as the castle, the robots took on the guise of knights to further the illusion. He also discovers that the data banks contain the myths and legends of Earths history. The Doctor becomes convinced that Robin is a robot, created by the knights to give the false hope. The Sheriff arrives with Clara in tow, having been alerted to the Doctors presence, Clara and Robin jump out of a window into a moat below and escape, but the Doctor is taken prisoner again. Meanwhile, held captive in the refinery, the Doctor realises that the robots are creating a gold matrix to repair their ships engines. However, there is not enough gold in the area to complete the repairs on the spacecraft. If the Sheriff should try to use it, it will destroy half the country, with the assistance of a young woman held captive by the robots, he leads the prisoners in a revolt against the knight robots. Most of the robots are destroyed, and the prisoners flee, the Sheriff appears and while trying to persuade him to abandon his plan, the Doctor realises from the Sheriffs reactions that his belief about Robin was wrong — he is the real Robin Hood. At this point, Robin, Clara and the Merry Men arrive to save the day, the Sheriff challenges Robin to a duel

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The Doctor, Robin Hood, and Clara

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Inside No. 9
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Inside No.9 is a British dark comedy anthology television programme written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton and produced by the BBC. The first series was broadcast between 5 February and 12 March 2014 on BBC Two, and a series aired from 26 March to 29 April 2015. Each half-hour episode is a story with new characters and a new setting. Aside from the writers, each episode has a new cast, the stories are linked only by the fact that each takes place at a number 9, with settings including a suburban house, a gothic mansion and a barn. Pemberton and Shearsmith took inspiration for Inside No.9 from an episode of Psychoville, a previous project and this episode was, in turn, inspired by Alfred Hitchcocks Rope. Inside No.9 was also a reaction to Psychoville, which featured an overarching story realised over multiple series. Themes and tone vary from episode-to-episode, but all have elements of comedy, the first series contained six episodes. Sardines concerns a game of sardines at an engagement party, a Quiet Night In, an episode almost entirely free of dialogue, follows a pair of hapless burglars breaking into a modernist house. In Tom & Gerri, an aspiring novelist invites a man into his flat. Last Gasp sees a popstar die while blowing up a balloon at a childs birthday party. In The Understudy, an understudy in a West End production of Macbeth longs for the lead role, the seriess final episode was The Harrowing, a gothic horror story in which a schoolgirl housesits a mansion belonging to a brother and sister. An online-only episode composed of cinemagraphs, The Inventors, was released by the BBC. The second series contained six episodes. La Couchette follows a group of passengers on a French sleeper carriage, the Trial of Elizabeth Gadge is a period piece concerning a witch trial in a 17th-century village. Cold Comfort follows a number of working at a crisis hotline call centre. Nanas Party involves family secrets being revealed during a birthday party. The final episode, Séance Time, begins with a woman visiting a medium. A third and fourth series have been commissioned, the third airing early 2017, the first episode of series 3 was a Christmas special, The Devil of Christmas, which aired on 27 December 2016, followed by the remainder of the series beginning in February 2017

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The 12 Days of Christine
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The 12 Days of Christine is the second episode of the second series of British dark comedy anthology series Inside No.9. It first aired on 2 April 2015 on BBC Two and it was written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, and directed by Guillem Morales. The episode tells the story of Christine, a woman living in a small flat, over 12 years in her life, focussing on key days. Shearsmith plays the Stranger, a figure apparently haunting Christine. The 12 Days of Christine departed from the black comedy of Inside No.9 to instead focus on drama. The story was interpreted in a number of different ways by commentators, who differed in their understanding of Christines life and confused perspective, reviewers responded extremely positively to the episode, which was awarded five out of five stars in both The Times and The Telegraph. Critics variously commended the performances of the actors, particularly Smith, the poignancy of the plot, the second series of Inside No.9 was written in 2014, and then filmed from the end of 2014 into early 2015. The 12 Days of Christine follows the life of Christine over 12 years, Shearsmith described this as a very unusual episode structure and storytelling method, but felt that, in this case, it was effective. Upon penning the script, Pemberton and Shearsmith immediately thought of Sheridan Smith as a performer who would be suitable to play Christine, both had previously worked with her, and the pair hoped that she would be willing to accept the role. Smith had been a fan of the writers work. She was gripped by the script, and accepted the role, during filming, she said she was over the moon to be working with Pemberton and Shearsmith. As each episode of Inside No.9 features new characters, the 12 Days of Christine starred Smith as Christine, around whom the story revolves. Adam, Christines partner, was played by Tom Riley, and Stacy Liu played Fung, Christines parents—Marion and Ernie—were played by Michele Dotrice and Paul Copley, while Christines son Jack was played by Joel Little and Dexter Little. Christines colleague Bobby was played by Pemberton, and Adams colleague Zara was played by Jessica Ellerby, Shearsmith plays the Stranger, a mysterious man who repeatedly appears to Christine. For the second series on Inside No,9, Pemberton and Shearsmith were permitted to build two sets, the first was for La Couchette, the first episode of the series, and the second was for The 12 Days of Christine. The two were built alongside each other at Twickenham Studios, Smith described the fake flat as lovely, explaining that it was a full set, bedroom, bathroom, working taps – everything. She considered the flats 1970s decor really cool and funky, Christine arrives home to her flat with Adam, whom she has just met at a New Years party. Thirteen months later, it is Valentines Day and Christine chats with her flatmate Fung at home, Christine is dating Adam, but receives a card from her first boyfriend, whom she has not seen since childhood

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" The 12 Days of Christine "

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Royal Court Theatre
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The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre, in 1956 it was acquired by and is home to a resident company, the English Stage Company. The first theatre on Lower George Street, off Sloane Square, was the converted Nonconformist Ranelagh Chapel, marie Litton became its manager in 1871, hiring Walter Emden to remodel the interior, and it was renamed the Court Theatre. By 1878, management of the theatre was shared by John Hare, further alterations were made in 1882 by Alexander Peebles, after which its capacity was 728. After that, Arthur Cecil was co-manager of the theatre with John Clayton, among other works, they produced a series of Arthur Wing Pineros farces, including The Rector, The Magistrate, The Schoolmistress, and Dandy Dick, among others. The theatre closed on 22 July 1887 and was demolished, the present building was built on the east side of Sloane Square, replacing the earlier building, and opened on 24 September 1888 as the New Court Theatre. Designed by Walter Emden and Bertie Crewe, it is constructed of red brick, moulded brick. Originally the theatre had a capacity of 841 in the stalls, dress circle, amphitheatre, Cecil and Clayton yielded management of the theatre to Mrs. John Wood and Arthur Chudleigh in 1887, although Cecil continued acting in their company until 1895. The first production in the new building was a play by Sydney Grundy titled Mamma, starring Mrs. John Wood and John Hare, with Arthur Cecil and Eric Lewis. Harley Granville-Barker managed the theatre for the first few years of the 20th century and it ceased to be used as a theatre in 1932 but was used as a cinema from 1935 to 1940, until World War II bomb damage closed it. The interior was reconstructed by Robert Cromie, and the number of seats was reduced to under 500, George Devine was appointed artistic director at the suggestion of Oscar Lewenstein, one of the other two co-founders of the English Stage Company. The ESC opened at the Royal Court in 1956 as a subsidised theatre producing new British and foreign plays, Devine aimed to create a writers theatre, seeking to discover new writers and produce serious contemporary works. Devine produced the new companys production in 1956, John Osbornes Look Back in Anger. Osborne followed Look Back In Anger with The Entertainer, with Laurence Olivier in the lead as Archie Rice, significantly, although it was quickly reversed, the artistic board of the ESC initially rejected the play. Two members of the board were in agreement in opposing The Entertainer, in the mid-1960s, the ESC became involved in issues of censorship. The succès de scandale of the two helped to bring about the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. During the period of Devines directorship, besides Osborne and Bond, early seasons included new international plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Marguerite Duras. In addition to the 400-seat proscenium arch Theatre Downstairs, the smaller studio Theatre Upstairs was opened in 1969

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The Royal Court Theatre at dusk in 2007

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Riverside Studios
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It is planned to reopen in 2018. Under the ownership of Jack Buchanan, the company produced films as The Happiest Days of Your Life and Father Brown. In 1954, the studio was acquired by the British Broadcasting Corporation for its television service, the facility was in continuous use until the early 1970s, the rooftop camera position providing one of the highlights of the annual University Boat Race each Easter Saturday. An influential gallery area also flourished, under the direction of Milena Kalinovska who joined in 1982, Channel 4s opening night launch party was held at the Studios in 1982. During the 1980s, the Riverside was also home to Motley Theatre Design Course, following repeated financial crises, and the directorship of David Gothard, Riverside pulled in its horns. William Burdett-Coutts was appointed Artistic Director of Riverside Studios in 1993, Studios 1 and 3 were lucratively used once more in the 1990s for broadcasting, including the Chris Evans vehicle TFI Friday. CD, UK was broadcast from Riverside from 2003 until 2006, later projects included the BBCs Mighty Truck of Stuff and Channel 4s T4 and Popworld. In 2014 Riverside Studios started undergoing a new redevelopment, due for completion in 2018. London builder Mount Anvil, working in conjunction with A2 Dominion, demolished the old Riverside Studios, as part of the redevelopment a new riverside walkway will be created to connect the Thames Path to Hammersmith Bridge. It played regular host to the London Taiwanese, Italian, Polish, tom Robinson hosted live recording sessions for his BBC Radio 6 Music radio show, show Introducing. in Studio 3. Riverside Studios – official site Riverside TV Studios Ltd The Riverside Story Riverside Studios history

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Arcadia (play)
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Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. It has been praised by critics as the finest play from one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in the English language. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it one of the best science-related works ever written, Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house in Derbyshire, and takes place in both 1809/1812 and the present day. The activities of two scholars and the houses current residents are juxtaposed with those of the people who lived there in the earlier period. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a teenager with ideas about mathematics, nature. She studies with her tutor Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron, as their studies unfold – with the help of Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology – the truth about what happened in Thomasinas time is gradually revealed. The plays set features a table, used by the characters in both past and present. Props are not removed when the play switches time period, books, coffee mugs, quill pens, portfolios, an ancient but still living tortoise also appears in every scene, symbolising long-suffering endurance and the continuity of existence. The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden-front room of the house, Thomasina starts asking why jam mixed in rice pudding can never be unstirred, which leads her on to the topic of determinism and to a beginning theory about chaotic shapes in nature. This is interrupted by Chater himself, who is angry that his wife was caught in the aforementioned carnal embrace with Septimus, Septimus tries to defuse the situation by heaping praise on The Couch of Eros. The tactic works, because Chater does not know it was Septimus who savaged an earlier work of his, the setting shifts to the present day. Hannah Jarvis is researching the house, the garden, and specifically the hermit, for a study of hermits, Bernard Nightingale enters with Chloe Coverly, she conceals his identity from Hannah, as he had given Hannahs last book a poor review. Chloes brother, Valentine, is gathering data on the biology of the grouse in the surrounding grounds. Bernard notes that records of Chater the poet disappeared after 1809, the third scene returns to the earlier time frame, Septimus is again tutoring Thomasina, this time in translating Latin. Again their focus diverts, this time to the destruction of the Alexandrian Library and she mourns the loss of the knowledge stored there, and Septimus responds that all that was lost will eventually turn up again. They are again interrupted by Chater, who succeeds in challenging Septimus to the duel, Hannah rediscovers Thomasinas primer containing her ideas on iteration and chaos theory, this recalls Septimus assertion that what was lost is eventually rediscovered. Valentine reacts with interest to the notes, as his own research centres on similar concepts, still in the present, Bernard gives Hannah, Valentine, and Chloe a preview of his lecture theorising that Lord Byron shot and killed Chater in a duel. When Hannah and Valentine challenge his logic, Bernard launches into a diatribe about the irrelevance of science, returning to 1809, we learn that the duel never occurred

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Cover of first edition
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The title Arcadia alludes to a pastoral ideal.
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Et in Arcadia ego is most known as the title of this painting by Nicolas Poussin, also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie ("The Arcadian Shepherds")
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Poster for the Lincoln Center production by James McMullan

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre
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The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan, named for actress Ethel Barrymore. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp and constructed by the Shuberts, it opened on December 20,1928, with The Kingdom of God, a play selected by leading lady Ethel Barrymore. Over the next years she returned to star in The Love Duel, Scarlett Sister Mary, The School for Scandal. It is the only surviving theatre of the many the Shuberts built for performers who were affiliated with them and it has been used continuously as a legitimate house, unlike many of the older theatres that have been used for a variety of purposes throughout the years. Death of a Salesman achieved the box office record for the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the production grossed $1,066,582.41 over seven performances, for the week ending June 3,2012. Whos Who in the Theatre, edited by John Parker, tenth edition, revised, London,1947, Broadway Theatre Guide Ethel Barrymore Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre

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Almeida Theatre
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The theatre produces a diverse range of drama. Successful plays are often transferred to West End theatres, the theatre was built in 1837 for the newly formed Islington Literary and Scientific Society and included a library, reading room, museum, laboratory, and a lecture theatre seating 500. The architects were the fashionable partnership of Robert Lewis Roumieu and Alexander Dick Gough, the library was sold off in 1872 and the building disposed of in 1874 to the Wellington Club which occupied it until 1886. In 1885 the hall was used for concerts, balls, the Salvation Army bought the building in 1890, renaming it the Wellington Castle Barracks. The Salvationists remained there until 1955, for a few years from 1956 the building was a factory and showroom for Becks British Carnival Novelties, then remained empty until in 1972 a campaign began to turn it into a theatre. The building was Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1972, the current modified building retains the listing. The campaign to open the building as a theatre was led by the Lebanese-born internationally renowned opera and theatre director Pierre Audi, under Audi the theatres reputation grew and its annual summer International Festival of Contemporary Music and Performance became highly regarded. In the summer of 1985 Ástor Piazzolla, the renowned Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player, throughout the 1980s the Almeida Theatre was a London receiving house for Fringe, avant-garde and provincial theatre productions. Touring companies from the UK were regularly hosted, including Shared Experience, Joint Stock, Theatre Complicite, Cheek by Jowl, in 1987, the Almeida also became home to Motley Theatre Design Course, under the directorship of Margaret Harris. The Not the RSC Festival was presented at the Almeida in 1986 and 1987, in 1990 the Scot Ian McDiarmid and the South African Jonathan Kent took over as joint artistic directors. Organised as a producing theatre its productions regularly played to packed houses and frequently transferred to the West End. In 1993 the theatre won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, one of the keys to the success and reputation of the Almeida during the 1990s were the stagings of various plays by Harold Pinter. These included revivals of Betrayal in 1991 and No Mans Land in 1992 and premières of Party Time in 1991, first, an eclectically international programme, everything from Molière and Marivaux to Brecht and Neil LaBute. Second, top-level casting that has given us Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet and Ivanov, Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh, third, a territorial expansion that has seen the Almeida colonise the Hackney Empire, the old Gainsborough film studios and even a converted bus depot in Kings Cross. In November 1999, the Almeida was awarded £1.5 million by the Arts Council of England to undertake repairs to the theatre. The work began early in 2001 when the theatre was closed, national Lottery backing of £5.8 million allowed for a complete restoration. The theatres artistic remit was the presentation of bold and adventurous play choices staged to the highest possible standards and this included classics from the British, American and Irish repertoire, foreign classics in newly commissioned versions, and new plays. In October 2012 Attenborough announced that he would step down early in 2013, rupert Goold was appointed Artistic Director in February 2013, taking up the post full-time in September 2013

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Almeida Theatre in June 2011

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Michael Billington (critic)
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Michael Keith Billington OBE is a British author and arts critic. Billington was born on 16 November 1939, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, and attended Warwick School and he attended St Catherines College, Oxford from 1958 to 1961, graduating with a BA degree. After leaving Oxford, in 1961, Billington began working as a critic in Liverpool. From 1962 to 1964, he served as liaison officer and director for the Lincoln Theatre Company. In October 1971, he left The Times to become theatre critic for The Guardian, beginning in the 1980s, he was a London arts correspondent for The New York Times, and, since 1988, he has also served as drama critic for Country Life. Billingtons broadcasting career had begun by 1965, philip French, then a BBC radio producer, asked him to review two short radio plays by the then virtually unknown Tom Stoppard which were being broadcast on the BBC Third Programme. Later, he was a presenter in Critics Forum, which ended in 1990, and he has contributed to other British arts and drama radio and television programmes. In April 2007, Billington presented a paper on Is British Theatre As Good As It Claims. Billington has spoken about the book at venues, including the Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick. At the end of January and that it will be released first as an e-book and he is currently writing a biography of Dion Boucicault, which will be published only in braille. Billington blogs for guardian. co. uk and formerly also for Whatsonstage. com, Billington married Jeanine Bradlaugh in 1978, they have one daughter and live in London. He is a supporter of the Labour Party, Billington was made an Honorary Fellow of St Catherines College, Oxford in 2005 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by The University of Warwick in July 2009. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to the theatre, books by Billington The Modern Actor. How Tickled I Am, A Celebration of Ken Dodd, one Night Stands, A Critics View of British Theatre 1971–1991. The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, state of the Nation, British Theatre since 1945. Book reviews The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, salem on Literature, Magill Book Reviews. Whos Who 2007, An Annual Biographical Dictionary, London, A & C Black,2007. Featured Alumni, Michael Billington, Author and Arts Critic, St Catherines College, international Whos Who of Authors and Writers 2004

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Michael Billington, 22 April 2010

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records

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Integrated Authority File
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The Integrated Authority File or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives, the GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero license, the GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in library classification, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an ontology intended for knowledge representation in the semantic web, available in the RDF format